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Heart Disease. Men and women who consume one or two alcoholic
drinks per day have a lower death rate from coronary heart disease
(e.g., heart attacks) than do heavier drinkers and abstainers, as
discussed in Alcohol Alert No. 45, "Alcohol and Coronary Heart
Disease" (16). Among heavier drinkers, research shows similar rates
of alcohol-associated heart muscle disease (i.e., cardiomyopathy) for
both men and women, despite women's 60 percent lower lifetime
alcohol use (17).
Traffic Crashes. Although women are less likely than men to drive
after drinking (1,24) and to be involved in fatal alcohol-related
crashes (25), women have a higher relative risk of driver fatality than
men at similar blood alcohol concentrations (26). Laboratory studies
of the effects of alcohol on responding to visual cues and other tasks
suggest that there may be gender differences in how alcohol affects
the performance of driving tasks (27).
Women’s lower rates of drinking and driving may be attributed to their
lower tendency toward risk taking compared with men (28,29).
Women are also less likely to view drinking and driving as acceptable
behavior. In a 1990 national household survey, 17 percent of women,
compared with 27 percent of men, agreed that it was acceptable for a
person to drink one or two drinks before driving (30). Nevertheless,
the proportion of female drivers involved in fatal crashes is
increasing. In 1996, 16 percent of all drivers involved in alcohol-
related fatal crashes were women, compared with 13 percent in 1986
and 12 percent in 1980 (25).
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